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Public & Environmental Health

Our Environmental Health team aim to ensure the safety, health and welfare of the residents, visitors and workers of East Herts. This is achieved by delivering a range of high quality, specialist services.

Not everyone receives their water from the mains; some properties in East Herts get their water from private boreholes. You can find details here about how we go about ensuring that the water is safe to drink.

Health and Safety legislation applies to everyone, whether you are an employer, employee, self-employed, a contractor, visitor to a workplace or member of the public who may be affected by work activities.

The Environmental Health team are continually working to improve the way we work. One important way we can do this is to listen to your feedback. If you have recently used our service, you can complete a short survey here.

Where possible we aim to publish our public register of licences online, however this is not always possible. If they are not available online you can contact Environmental Health on 01279 655261 to arrange an appointment to view the public register.

The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 places a statutory duty on the District Council to make arrangements for registering the death and making funeral arrangements in cases where there are no known relatives or friends able to make the necessary arrangements.